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Massive, incandescent studio and live trio recordings from 1967, with Han Bennink on the eve of Machine Gun, and bassist Ruud Jacobs in the form of his life. Precious retrievals from Rollins’ long studio hiatus between East Broadway Run Down, the previous year, and Next Album in 1972.

“It really represents a take-no-prisoners type of music. That’s sort of what I was doing around that period of time; that was sort of Sonny Rollins then — a wham-bam-thank-you-ma’am approach.”

Blazingly interrogative — three cuts run over twenty minutes — it attests magnificently to Jacobs’ memory of “something spiritual… a very special atmosphere on the stage where I felt I could do anything.”
Expertly presented, with beautiful photos and engaging notes.
Hotly recommended.

Wow!
Newly discovered radio recordings by the great jazz organist, from 1964-5, alongside Nathan Davis (at the same time as Happy Girl), Woody Shaw, Billy Brooks and co.
Fifteen minute versions of Talkin’ About JC and Wayne Shorter’s Black Nile; twenty minutes of Shaw’s Zoltan (for Bartok’s mate Kodaly)... Luny Tune… Mean To Me…
Handsomely presented, too, with an excellent, 67-page booklet.